Could not find 'timepix'

Sweetu · December 26, 2018, 10:51pm

Greetings! I have successfully compiled and installed Allpix. However when I am trying to run an small simulation with timepix it gives me an error.
(Error during execution of run:
Could not find a detector model of type ‘timepix’
Please check your configuration and modules. Cannot continue.)

I checked that my Models folder does contain timepix.conf, I also tried coping the timepix.conf file from Models to the Modules folder in /source/src/ and it did not work.

INPUT FILES

 [Allpix] 
number_of_events = 1000 
detectors_file = "tutorial-geometry.conf"
log_level = "Warning"

[GeometryBuilderGeant4]

[DepositionGeant4]
particle_type = "Pi+"
source_energy = 120GeV
source_type = "beam"
beam_size = 3mm
source_position = 0um 0um -200mm
beam_direction = 0 0 1 
physics_list = FTFP_BERT_EMZ

[ElectricFieldReader]
model="linear"
bias_voltage=-50V
depletion_voltage=-30V
outpur_plots = 1

[ProjectionPropagation]
temperature = 293K
outpur_plots = 1

[SimpleTransfer]
outpur_plots = 1

[DefaultDigitizer]
outpur_plots = 1

[detector1]
type = "timepix"
position = 0mm 0mm 0mm
orientation = 0 0 0

I believe that my input files are correct.

I have also attached my cmake command results are below. In this file everything builds perfectly.

I really appreciate all your help in this regard. Can you please let me know how to rectify this error.

sanchit@KRATOS:~/Softwares/ALLPIX/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/sanchit/Softwares/ALLPIX/Install -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/sanchit/Softwares/LCIO/Install -DBUILD_ALL_MODULES=ON /home/sanchit/Softwares/ALLPIX/source
-- Git project directory is dirty:
 fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git.
-- Building Allpix^2 version v1.3+101^gc0bafb5e.
-- Building "RelWithDebInfo"
-- Found Doxygen: /usr/bin/doxygen (found version "1.8.13") found components:  doxygen dot 
-- Found LATEX: /usr/bin/latex   
-- Found LaTeX compiler.
-- Found UnixCommands: /bin/bash  
-- Manual: adding 17 module descriptions
-- Manual: adding 7 example descriptions
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-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
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-- Unit tests: 26 examples
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Sweetu · December 27, 2018, 10:46pm

Hi all I also tries copying and pasting timepix.conf at the location of my input file it still tells me bellow error:

FATAL ERROR: Could not find a detector model of type ‘timepix’.

It is really important for my project that I resolve this ASAP. Hence I appreciate any help I can get.

Many thanks!

kwolters · December 28, 2018, 5:28pm

This should just work fine, however it might be that some configuration path was set incorrectly as you are not running cmake the same way as documented in the manual. As said it should then still work, but following the manual closely should help prevent getting into unexpected situations.

Anyway you should be able to workaround this issue by setting the model path manually to the path where the models are located using the model_paths parameters as documented here.

simonspa · January 7, 2019, 8:45am

We should check what goes wrong in the CMake installation here. Could you maybe post the output of your

$ make install

command for reference?

@kwolters I can reproduce this by installing in a non-standard location, issue filed here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/allpix-squared/allpix-squared/issues/151

Sweetu · January 9, 2019, 7:37am

Thanks a lot however I solved this problem as per the guidance of Dr. Wolters I just used the model_paths to get this done. My runs are fine now.

Thanks

simonspa · January 9, 2019, 8:01am

Thanks for letting us know! We’ll follow up on the issue independently of this, thank you for reporting!

simonspa · January 23, 2019, 8:07am

To follow up on this: this has been fixed in master

and will also be part of 1.3.2.